Probability distribution reconstruction using circuit cutting applied to a variational classifier

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Main Authors: Neumann, Niels M. P., Rocha, Carlos M. R., Verbree, Jasper, van Vliet, Marc
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Published: 2025
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author Neumann, Niels M. P.
Rocha, Carlos M. R.
Verbree, Jasper
van Vliet, Marc
author_facet Neumann, Niels M. P.
Rocha, Carlos M. R.
Verbree, Jasper
van Vliet, Marc
contents Significant efforts are being spent on building a quantum computer. At the same time, developments in quantum software are rapidly progressing. Insufficient quantum resources often are the problem when running quantum algorithms. New techniques can aid in using smaller quantum computers to run larger quantum algorithms. One of these techniques is circuit cutting. With this method, a circuit is broken into multiple pieces, each of which is run on quantum hardware independently and then recombined to obtain the overall answer. These circuit cutting techniques require additional circuit evaluations, which can form a bottleneck for algorithms requiring many interactions. This work explores the potential of circuit cutting techniques precisely in this regime of many interactions. We consider two different models, a standard method based on expectation values, and a novel method based on probability distribution reconstruction. Next, we compare two different training methods we call train-then-cut and cut-then-train and show that in practice, cut-then-train still produces good results. This observation brings closer the practical applicability of circuit cutting techniques, as a train-then-cut strategy is often infeasible. We conclude by implementing a cut and uncut circuit and find that circuit cutting helps achieve higher fidelity results.
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spellingShingle Probability distribution reconstruction using circuit cutting applied to a variational classifier
Neumann, Niels M. P.
Rocha, Carlos M. R.
Verbree, Jasper
van Vliet, Marc
Quantum Physics
Significant efforts are being spent on building a quantum computer. At the same time, developments in quantum software are rapidly progressing. Insufficient quantum resources often are the problem when running quantum algorithms. New techniques can aid in using smaller quantum computers to run larger quantum algorithms. One of these techniques is circuit cutting. With this method, a circuit is broken into multiple pieces, each of which is run on quantum hardware independently and then recombined to obtain the overall answer. These circuit cutting techniques require additional circuit evaluations, which can form a bottleneck for algorithms requiring many interactions. This work explores the potential of circuit cutting techniques precisely in this regime of many interactions. We consider two different models, a standard method based on expectation values, and a novel method based on probability distribution reconstruction. Next, we compare two different training methods we call train-then-cut and cut-then-train and show that in practice, cut-then-train still produces good results. This observation brings closer the practical applicability of circuit cutting techniques, as a train-then-cut strategy is often infeasible. We conclude by implementing a cut and uncut circuit and find that circuit cutting helps achieve higher fidelity results.
title Probability distribution reconstruction using circuit cutting applied to a variational classifier
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03077